playing with my template

Don't panic . . . I'm working on my template. If all goes well -keep your fingers crossed- I'll have finally managed to make something very, very close to what I've always had in mind. Yes, make it, as in by myself. If it doesn't turn out, well, we'll see how that goes. Wish me luck.


UPDATE
As it turns out, I'm an idiot. Yes. I. Am. I started this blog back in 2003. Yes, back when blogger was just blogger and had nothing to do with google. I've only ever upgraded anything that we were forced to. Meaning that I still had the old "classic" template style where you had to mess and mess with the code to make any sort of change. Well, I finally gave in and changed to the "new" template style. Oh. My. Goodness. It is soooooo easy! Why didn't anyone tell me?!?!?!?! You can just add links by clicking and not have to worry if you spaced it and remembered to put things like < li >. Oh, I've wasted soooooo much time. Why? (As I look up into the air, my hands balled up into fists)
I'm still not done with what I want to do. I'm trying to center my sidebar titles without actually centering the links and such. I'm giving up now because my eyes are shot and all I see is a bunch of jumbled letters.
Oh, and I also want to find a picture I really, really want. For now I'm sticking with crayons as that's what we're doing now. Can you believe my kiddies go back to school on Monday? Anyway, now I'm rambling . . . .

feeling: hopeful
listening to: Metric (Help I'm Alive)

photo blogging days

I played along with Shanny's photo blogging days this time. It was a sort of weird time because there's things going on that are usually not this way.

- Rodrigo (my husband) just got back from a 12 day business trip on Thursday evening
- Friday was his birthday
- my parents came into town in Saturday for Alec's (my son's) kindergarten graduation

Anyway, here goes . . . .

May 15, 2009
8:30 a.m. My friend Jen dropped by to give me this gift. She said it was for being a good friend, but really, she's the awesome friend!


10:30 a.m. Laundry piles. Once everything is dry and folded, I put everything away.


12:30 p.m. Alec is now dropped off at kindergarten and I stop by the grocery store. I'm buying tomatillos for tonight's dinner: green enchiladas.


2:30 p.m. Alec's friends were over today and they all made a huge mess of his room. This is the "during" of me cleaning it. I would've rather shown you the "after" but this was picture time.


4:30 p.m. The laundry is done, the house is clean. Well, I think it's clean and then I notice my furry baby's toys thrown all over the living room.


6:00 p.m. Prep for dinner: boiling chicken, boiling green chiles, onion and tomatillo, and making Spanish rice.


8:30 p.m. Having birthday cake. Happy birthday, Rodrigo!


May 16, 2009

10:00 a.m. I slept in. I'm barely stepping out of the shower.


12:00 p.m. Saturday = no school = my daughter playing on Club Penguin.


2:00 p.m. My parents get here from Texas. They brought huge burritos for us.


4:00 p.m. Catching up with my mom and looking over the things my aunt sent me. A blouse, earrings, a pendant, perfume and a pair of shoes. What can I say, my aunt loves me!


6:00 p.m. Messing around with pictures of my hair. People are telling me they like my red streak, but it's actually pink.


8:00 Rodrigo's birthday dinner at Montana Avenue. Our wine list.


So there you have it. Two days in pictures. I can't wait to play again!

feeling: HOT
listening to: Muse (Starlight)

cleaning house

I'm bored of my daisy template. I'm playing around with new ones so please bear with me if it looks a little weird for a while. I tend to mess them up really easily. Ugh, codes. How do computer people understand this?
I'm also getting rid of a lot of links. For a while, I'd link to practically every single blog I'd read. I really don't read that many anymore. I visit the same ones all the time (Ani, Jess, Jenny, Jenn, Nanette, Michelle . . . ). Some blogs I linked to don't even exist anymore. I thought I'd start all over and maybe find some new bloggy reads.
So tell me, tell me . . . . do you like our lion pictures? I had an idea of a collage of those head pop-in pictures. I hadn't realized how many I have. The problem is that Brianna hates taking those pictures. I don't have any of her smiling in them. All the rest of us love them but for her "it's sooooooo embarrassing". The lion one was the best I could find of her. Oh, and Alec was roaring, just so you know.
For now this is what I'll use . . . .

feeling: frustrated
listening to: Morrissey or the Smiths. Hmm, I don't know this song.

NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo

I'd been thinking about doing NaNoWriMo this year. I signed up again but it just sounds so impossible to do. I mean, I have a lot of things to do. How can I be a good mom and still write 50,000 words. Hmm.... I have a lot of things to think about. I'm thinking more seriously this year because I actually have some sort of writing theme in mind. Plus, 50,000 words really isn't a full novel. I'd say it's more like a novella and might just be feasible. -sigh- We'll see what happens next week.

Another thing I saw is NaBloBoMo. National Blog Posting Month. By signing up, you agree to post in your blog every day in the whole month. Quite clever. I haven't signed up in the official participant list yet. If I do decide to do NaNoWriMo, I won't be blogging much. Also, we're leaving town for Thanksgiving. I thought about Audioblogger and just found out that they are discontinuing service as of November 1st. Suck. I might blog through the cell phone. I mean, we could always take the laptop but MY MOM DOES NOT HAVE INTERNET SERVICE. Oh well, I have one last weekend to consider all these things.

Jess, I know you said you thought about NaNoWriMo. Have you done it before? Has anyone? Realistically, would I have to be at the computer all day?

Ok, enough of that. Have a great weekend! Ours: Halloween carnivals, football games, shopping. . . . .

feeling: I *LOVE* this Butter Rum coffee
listening to: Halloween music playlist